Dagmar Herzog

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Dagmar Herzog (* 1961 ) is an American historian and professor of history at the City University of New York and a leading expert on sexual morality in European fascism and on contemporary history in the USA.

Life

Herzog received his BA from Duke University with a summa cum laude , Ph.D. she received her PhD from Brown University . She then taught at Michigan State University before becoming a Mellon Fellow at Harvard University and a member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton . In 2005 she went to the Graduate Center of City University in New York.

Herzog is the daughter of Frederick Herzog , a German-born professor of Protestant theology at Duke University.

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Herzog's work focuses on the history of sexuality and gender as well as theology and religion in modern times and, connected to it, the history of the Holocaust and the relationships between Jews and Christians.

One of her interesting research results is the realization that the discourse about sexuality plays a significant role in Germany's coming to terms with the past . According to this, the conservatism of the 1950s in sexual morality is to be understood as a cleansing reaction to a sexuality of National Socialism, which the major Christian churches in particular portray as libertarian . However, this restoration failed to recognize that Germany was one of the most permissive countries in matters of sexuality before and independently of the National Socialist ideology in the 1920s. On the other hand, the tracing back of the Holocaust to the allegedly sexually uptight philistinism of National Socialism by the 1968 movement contradicts the historical facts about sexuality in the Third Reich , but had the function of breaking the front of the conservative sexual morality of the 1950s.

As for the inner-American discourse, according to Herzog, the American religious right and evangelicals , contrary to the cliché of the prudish conservatives, learned a lot from the sexual revolution. A new sexualization resulting from this, which is aimed in particular at the couple relationship, also affects the left or the liberal scene. The longing for perfect sex and the right to it are omnipresent, although they stand in the way of realistically dealing with one's own inadequacies.

Trump won the US elections in 2016 because he embodied the male role model in a primitive but conventional manner; moreover, he had become ready to campaign to punish abortion again.

Publications

Books

  • Herzog, D: Cold War Freud: Psychoanalysis in an Age of Catastrophes , (Cambridge University Press 2016)
  • Herzog, D: Sexuality in Europe: A Twentieth-Century History (Cambridge University Press 2011)
  • Sex in Crisis: The New Sexual Revolution and the Future of American Politics (Basic 2008).
  • Sex after Fascism: Memory and Morality in Twentieth-Century Germany (Princeton, Oxford: Princeton University Press 2005), ISBN 0-691-11702-0
    • German translation: The politicization of lust: Sexuality in German history of the 20th century (Siedler Verlag / Random House, Munich 2005), ISBN 978-3-88680-831-1
  • Intimacy and Exclusion: Religious Politics in Pre-Revolutionary Baden (Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press 1996; Transaction 2007), ISBN 0-691-04492-9

Editorships

  • Brutality and Desire: War and Sexuality in Europe's Twentieth Century Palgrave 2009, ISBN 978-0-230-28563-7 .
  • with Daniel Fulda, Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann , Till van Rahden : Democracy in the Shadow of Violence: Stories of the Private in Post-War Germany (Wallstein 2008)
  • (with Gunter Bischof, Anton Pelinka and Josef Köstlbauer): Sexuality in Austria (Transaction 2007)
  • Lessons and Legacies VII: The Holocaust in International Perspective (Northwestern 2006)
  • Sexuality and German Fascism (New York, Oxford: Berghahn 2005), ISBN 1-57181-551-1

Articles and reviews

  • The Death of God in West Germany: Between Secularization, Postfascism, and the Rise of Liberation Theology , in: Die Gegenwart Gottes in der Moderne , ed. v. Michael Geyer and Lucian Hölscher. Wallstein Verlag , Göttingen 2006. ISBN 978-3-8353-0007-1
  • How Jewish is German Sexuality? Sex and Antisemitism in the Third Reich , in: German History from the Margins , ed. Neil Gregor et al. (Indiana 2006)
  • The Reception of the Kinsey Reports in Europe , in: Sexuality and Culture 10/1 (Winter 2006)
  • Sexuality in the Postwar West , in: Journal of Modern History 78 (March 2006)
  • Sex was yesterday , in: Cicero (January 2006)
  • East Germany's Sexual Evolution , in: Socialist Modern , eds. Paul Betts and Katherine Pence (Michigan 2006)
  • Sexual Morality in 1960s West Germany , in: German History 23/3 (2005)
  • Sexuality, Memory, Morality , in: History and Memory 17 / 1–2 (Spring 2005)
  • Sex and Secularization in Nazi Germany , in: Fascism and Neofascism: Critical Writings on the Radical Right in Europe , Eds. Angelica Fenner and Eric Weitz (Palgrave 2004)
  • Postwar Ideologies and the Body Politics of 1968 , in: German Ideologies since 1945: Studies in the Political Thought and Culture of the Bonn Republic , Ed. Jan-Werner Mueller (Palgrave 2003)
  • Desperately Seeking Normality: Sex and Marriage in the Wake of the War , in: Life after Death: Approaches to a Cultural and Social History of Europe during the 1940s and 1950s , Eds. Richard Bessel and Dirk Schumann (Cambridge 2003)
  • Anti-fascist bodies: student movement, sexual revolution and anti-authoritarian child rearing , in: Post-war in Germany , ed. v. Klaus Naumann ( Hamburger Edition , 2001)
  • Sexual revolution and coming to terms with the past , in: Zeitschrift für Sexualforschung 13/2 (June 2000)
  • 'Pleasure, Sex, and Politics Belong Together': Post-Holocaust Memory and the Sexual Revolution in West Germany , in: Intimacy , Ed. Lauren Berlant (Chicago, 2000)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gunter Schmidt: "The sources were saturated with sexuality" ; Conversation with Herzog about sexuality under National Socialism, in: taz from January 20, 2007.
  2. ↑ Jan Feddersen: US sex historian on counter-enlightenment: "Nobody says: Sex is okay" ; taz of September 21, 2008
  3. ↑ Daniel Binswanger: With sexuality you can always and everywhere make politics. The American historian Dagmar Herzog explains why attitudes towards abortion were decisive for Trump's election , Das Magazin, Tamedia, Zurich March 18, 2017, pages 18-26
personal data
SURNAME Duke, Dagmar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian and professor of history at the City University of New York
DATE OF BIRTH 1961